<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All literature is gossip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25277]]></link><description><![CDATA[All literature is gossip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What is a church?"--Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8672]]></link><description><![CDATA["What is a church?"--Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14124]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very poor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very poor shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3717]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cautious seldom err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cautious seldom err.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could be a bird, I'd be a Flying Purple People Eater because then people would sing about me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20072]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could be a bird, I'd be a Flying Purple People Eater because then people would sing about me and I could fly down and eat them because I hate that song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,  You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9122]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,  You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse,   That it shall hold companionship in peace    With honour, as in war: since that to both     It stands in like request?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our new HD4000U brings widescreen imaging to business and professional environments to complement the latest presentation tools and laptops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our new HD4000U brings widescreen imaging to business and professional environments to complement the latest presentation tools and laptops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3615]]></link><description><![CDATA[My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62373]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love her energy, and her business sense was impressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37798]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love her energy, and her business sense was impressive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is an unbelievable coach. I loved playing for him and I don't think I've had a better coach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40026]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is an unbelievable coach. I loved playing for him and I don't think I've had a better coach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't mean the system is perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40892]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't mean the system is perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be kind of tight. I scouted (Madison), and they're still athletic like they normally are. But they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40793]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be kind of tight. I scouted (Madison), and they're still athletic like they normally are. But they don't have a strong inside game, and that could be a plus for us. Hopefully we're going to rely on that and hopefully some good defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62792]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Strickland) has more money than the other candidates. He's an excellent campaigner. Barring any unexpected event, he'll be impossible to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32213]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Strickland) has more money than the other candidates. He's an excellent campaigner. Barring any unexpected event, he'll be impossible to catch. I think Ted can win in November.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47400]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae;  The hawthorn's budding in the glen,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae;  The hawthorn's budding in the glen,   The milkwhite is the slae.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59088]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see this as an indictment of Germany at all. I think the reason you're seeing these cases is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see this as an indictment of Germany at all. I think the reason you're seeing these cases is that Germany is so determined to get these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65573]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...your mom calls you up every other day to beg you to get a real job so she can hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62468]]></link><description><![CDATA[...your mom calls you up every other day to beg you to get a real job so she can hold her head up at your cousin's upcoming wedding reception -- you're good with technology, have you ever considered becoming a Xerox machine repairperson?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence does even justice unjustly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence does even justice unjustly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6041]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63406]]></link><description><![CDATA[For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4178]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is truecourage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is truecourage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,  . . . .   Leave the chaff, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,  . . . .   Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He won't run if there is more rain. There is no point sending him around on a wet track. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He won't run if there is more rain. There is no point sending him around on a wet track. He's hopeless in the soft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Net used to be 50 percent men and 50 percent men pretending to be women, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41418]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Net used to be 50 percent men and 50 percent men pretending to be women,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're saying Big Tobacco is going to be held to account for their products, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're saying Big Tobacco is going to be held to account for their products,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34865]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34865</guid></item></channel></rss>